Blogs in December 2022

A Death in Tokyo 4th December 2022

The third and penultimate novel in the Detective Kyoichiro Kaga series by bestselling Japanese crime writer Keigo Higashino On the Nihonbashi Bridge in Tokyo stands the statue of a mythic beast – a kirin. One evening a man staggers...

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Punishment of a Hunter 4th December 2022

MURDER 1930s Leningrad. Stalin is tightening his grip on the Soviet Union, and a mood of fear cloaks the city. Detective Vasily Zaitsev is tasked with investigating a series of bizarre and seemingly motiveless homicides. MAYHEM As the curious...

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The Hideaway (Norma Curtis) 3rd December 2022

1945. Hedi Fischer is jostled off the train and through the gates of a Nazi concentration camp. As the prisoners are pushed inside, she frantically searches for a familiar face – anybody to make her feel less alone here....

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The Illuminated 30th November 2022

A remarkable debut novel about women’s relationships – with each other and with the men in their lives – and the rise of fundamentalism in India today. ‘When the light shifts, you see the world differently.’ A superbly nuanced...

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The Devil’s Crossing 28th November 2022

Gui is a troubled priest who has been shielding his secret family for years. Agnes, his beloved, is a falsely-accused heretic he rescued from the Inquisition’s pyre. Their son Etienne, unaware of his father’s true identity, is coming of...

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